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No. 627,056. Patented June I3, I899.

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POCKET PENCIL HOLDER.

(Application Med Apr. 6, 1899.)

(No Mlodel.)

WITNESSES (Mi) iii INVENTOI? 40. 61 m?" I B) A 7'TOHNEYS.

. to hold in the pocket grips the article and binds it in can be readilyattached to the garment with-.

which while lightand Fig. 2 is an enlarged lhvirno rates FRANK W.EVERETT, on NEW YORK, Y.

'POCKETYPENCIL-HOLDER."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,056, dated June 13,1899. Application filcd.Apri16, 1899. serial 711,959. (No model.)

To all whom it may-concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK W. EVERETT, of the city ofNew York,- county ofKings,-and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Pocket Pencil- .llolders, of which the following is afull, clear,

and exact description.

My inventionrelates to improvements in that class of devices which areintended to be attached to the pocket of a coat or waistcoat pens,pencils, combs, and other small articles usually carried in the pocketin such a position that they will not be accidentally lost and can bereadily reached when desired. A

The special object of my invention is to produce a device of thischaracter which is cheap and simple, which ean be applied to the innerside and upper edge of the pocket, so as to be hidden from view, whichis shaped in such a way as easily as if the holderor retain-ing devicewere not there, which firmly place, which out in any wayinjuring thesame, which can be as easily removed wien necessary, and cheap isextremely serviceable. 7

To these ends my invention consists of a pocket pencil holder theconstruction of which willbe hereinafter specifically de scribed andclaimed.

In, the drawings, wherein similar figures of reference designate similarparts, Figure 1 is:

a broken front elevation of a waistcoat having my plan of the holder asapplied to the pocket. Fig. 3 is a broken'perspective view, partly insection, of the holder; and Fig. 4c is a transverse section thereof.

The holder-10 is of a generally fiat shape, so that it will lie snuglyalong the inner side and upper edge of the pocket, and it is made ofelastic and frictional material, preferably rubber, so that it willyield when the pencil or other article is pushed between it and thepocket-back and reacting will grip the article and hold it in place. Toincrease its gripping properties, it is roughened on its inner side, asshown at 11, and its upper edge is beveled or inclined, as at 12, sothat it will upon a central metallic that an article can be placed andthe holder.

being accidentally improved holder attached thereto. in case the wearerof the garment stoops or as they do the back of the pocket incident.with the pocket edge, but lies jus'ta little below the same, as shown inFig. 1.

To give to the holder the necessary strength and also to prevent it fromsagging and injuring the set of the garment attached, the body of theholder is formed plate or web 13, which extends longitudinally beingcovered, however, at its ends, and this plate isthin and light, so asnot to materially alfectthe resiliency of the holder. vals on the backof the plate are hooks/14, which are preferably punchcd'out from theplate, someof which prdject upward, while othersmmjeet dowm'vard,";andsimilar hooks are formed at the and on the front side thereof. areintended to engage the cloth of the garment to'which the holder isattached, and as it is held at the ends, at both edges, and in thecenter by hooks pointing both upward and downward it cannot heaccidentally displaced.

When the holder is in position, as shown in Fig. 1, thepencil, insertedin the pocket precisely as usual and pen, or other article is to whichit is At inter extreme ends of the plate These books is gripped firmlybetween the pocket-back In this way the article is prevented from beinglaterallydisplaced and can always be grasped when needed; but the gripis sufficient to prevent the article from dropped from the pocketassumes any uuusual'position. It will also be noticed that the frontbooks 14 grasping will cause the holder to close the mouth of thepocket,

and thus itwill serve as a retainer to prevent the accidental orfelonious loss of a watch or other valuable article.

Having thus described my invention, 1 U

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters latent- I 1. Thecombination with a garment pocket of a resilient band-like holder, saidholder having laterally-projecting hook-s thereon to engage the materialforming the pocket, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of mam facture a pocket pencil-holdercomprising a central stiifening-plate and a'frictional resilient coatingentirely covering the plate, the said coat- 7 a pocket pencil-holdercomprising a frictional I holder to a pocket-,substantially asdescribed.-

onter su-rface, an inner inclosed stiffeningplate, and fastening meansfor securing the 4.: As an improved articleof manufacture a pocketpencil-holder comprising a resilient frictional band-like device havingembedded therein a l'ongitudinally -e xtendin g stiflen'ing scribed.

5'; The combination with the centralstifiE- ening-plate having lateralhooks struck up therefrom and projecting from both sides thereof, of acoat of frictional material covl ering, said plate, but leaving thehooks exposed, substantially as described.

I FRANK W. EVERETT. Witnesses:

CHARLES. J. IIOEHNLE 'J. A. E. CRISWELL.

